Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Ribble Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- long-bastion-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley MP: Maya Ellis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Leonard, Balderstone
- OS grid reference
- SD 631 323
- Coordinates
- 53.7858, -2.5609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Leonard is a church built between 1852 and 1854 by Rampling of Preston, with a tower added in 1906. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and has a slate roof. The church features a nave with a lower chancel, a tower at the west end of the north side of the nave, a north organ chamber, and a lower gabled projection on the south side.
The west window consists of three lights with flowing tracery beneath a pointed head. Below this window is a low semi-octagonal buttressed projection with a parapet, which houses the font and has windows on three sides. The nave has three bays on the north side and four on the south, separated by buttresses. The windows on the nave contain two trefoiled lights under pointed heads with Geometric tracery, and there are two small timber dormers on each side.
The tower features diagonal buttresses and includes a porch in its lower stage. It has a stone spire set back behind a parapet, with bell openings that consist of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head with a trefoil. The doorway has a moulded pointed arch. The east window has five lights with Geometric tracery under a pointed head.
Inside, the nave boasts a steeply-pitched open timber roof supported by three trusses with curved braces to high collars and king posts. These trusses are tied at wallplate level by iron rods. To the left of the pointed chancel arch is a dressed sandstone opening resembling a window, which contains two trefoiled lights that hold organ pipes. The windows also feature some glass from the later 19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Leonard sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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